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PharmedOut Publications and Other Materials

Articles

Thus Are Our Medical Meetings Managed (also read letter here)
British Medical Journal
Key opinion leaders may be unaware of pharma influence

Prescription Tracking and Public Health
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Why the AMA's opt-out plan does not protect prescribing privacy

Following the Script: How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors
Public Library of Science
Psychological techniques reps use to sell drugs

Doctors Must Not be Lapdogs to Drug Firms
British Medical Journal
Drug reps stomp out of a talk about industry influence

“This May Sting a Bit”: Cutting CME’s Ties to Pharma
Virtual Mentor
CME should go pharma-free

Advertising in Medical Journals: Should Current Practices Change?
PLoS Medicine
Taking ads for luxury goods would be less compromising to medical journals than accepting only drug ads

Gynecologists and Estrogen: An Affair of the Heart
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Ob-gyns believe in HT despite evidence

Other Materials

No Drug Reps Certificate (pdf)

Unbiased Resources (doc)

How to Hold Pharma-free Meetings (pdf)

Fast Facts on Generics (pdf)

Drug Approval in the US: How Drugs get to Market (CME)

Generic Drugs: Prescribing Sensibly (CME)

The Physician-Pharma Relationship (powerpoint)

Bring Your Own Lunch (BYOL) Sandwich Guide (pdf)

Other Publications

Deceptive Market Practices in the Marketplace of Ideas
Bioethics Forum

Help Your Doctor Break the Sample Habit
Women's Health Activist

Smoke and Mirrors
Bioethics Forum

Hormones for Hot Flashes - Is "Natural" Better?
Women's Health Activist

Meds in Kids
Women's Health Activist

Migraines, Menopause, and Marketing
Women's Health Activist

Classic Drugs Under Attack
Bioethics Forum

Unsafe IBS Drugs Back on the Market
Women’s Health Activist

Cervical Cancer Vaccines and Industry Influence
Bioethics Forum

The Waiting Room: Pharma's Latest Lair
Bioethics Forum

The Dog Ate My Disclosure
Bioethics Forum

Hold the Hype on HPV
Women's Health Activist

Over-the-Counter Sales of Medical Records
Women's Health Activist

Cervical Cancer Vaccines in Context
Women's Health Activist

Less Hormone Therapy, Less Breast Cancer
Women's Health Activist

Big Pharma Wants to Know All About You
Women's Health Activist

A Bone to Pick with Bone Drugs
Women's Health Activist

Waiting Room Activism
Women's Health Activist

Why Race-Based Medicine is a Bad Idea
Women's Health Activist

Just Say No to New Drugs
Women's Health Activist

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Drugs to Build Bones May Weaken Them
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Genentech Ends Midstage Studies of an Avastin Drug Combination
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Grassley Targets Brown’s Keller Over Grants
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Vermont Doctors Collect Millions from Drug Firms
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Drug Industry to Announce Revised Code on Marketing
Bans the pens, keeps the food NYT (read PhRMA press release; WSJ blog)

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Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties
30% of APA's funding from pharma NYT

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Follow-up Drug Studies are Becoming More Routine
Postmarketing studies required for 75% of new drugs Boston Globe

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Brazil Launches Cheap New Malaria Pill
Patent-free treatment Windsor Star

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Drugmakers Offer Aid To People 'On the Edge'
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Commentary

Deceptive Market Practices in the Marketplace of Ideas
“Think tanks” distorting health care debate Bioethics Forum

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